ry, 
STACTOLEMA ANCHIETR. 179 
Entire head brilliant chrome yellow, each feather edged with 
crimson at the tip, this latter colour predominating on the cheeks ; 
back of the head, nape, and a large occipital crest glossy blue-black ; 
a spot on the ear-coverts black tipped with white ; upper part of the 
back, scapulars and wing-coverts glossy blue-black banded with 
pure white; lower part of the back and rump black washed with 
rich chrome yellow, this colour alone showing on the rump; upper 
tail-coverts rich crimson; quills brownish black, grey at the base of 
inner web, the outer web spotted with white; tail black, in some 
lights appearing very distinctly barred, all the feathers broadly 
tipped and sparsely spotted with white ; chin, white ; throat, chrome 
tipped with crimson, and shading into beautiful lilac on the breast ; 
a band of black across the upper part of the breast with a few spots 
of lilac; rest of the breast white, passing on the lower part into 
chrome streaked with crimson; flanks and abdomen chrome ; legs 
and feet dull brown: orbital skin blackish. 
Fig. Marshall, Monogr. Capit. pl. 56. 
161. SracroLZMA ANCHIETR. Yellow-faced Barbet. 
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It was only as late as the year 1869, that this species was made 
known to naturalists, and as yet no other specimens have been 
recorded beyond those originally obtained by Anchieta. By him the 
bird was discovered at Caconda in Benguela, and it therefore must 
be regarded as a bird of Southern rather than of Western Africa. 
Nothing has as yet been recorded concerning the habits of this 
singular bird, and the description given below is taken from the 
well known work of the Messrs. Marshall. 
General plumage reddish-brown, forehead and sinciput, throat and 
_a spot at the base of the lower mandible sulphur-yellow; occiput, 
nape, and sides of the neck and breast shining black, the former covered 
with numerous small spots, and the latter with longitudinal streaks 
of sulphur-yellow ; superciliary eye-stripe, cheeks, and ear-coverts 
white; primaries and tail brownish-black, secondaries with the 
exterior web edged with greyish-white ; under wing-coverts, lower 
belly, and under tail-coverts white ; tail underneath ashy-grey ; irides 
reddish-brown ; bill, legs and feet black. 
Fig. Marshall, Monogr. Capitonide, pl. 73. 
